Example sentences of "[num] [coord] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his 1971 season was ruined by an uncompetitive March 713 and by the beginnings of his reputation as Hunt-the-Shunt , including a spectacular accident at Zandvoort which looked far worse than it actually turned out to be . |
| 2 | He said capital spending on school buildings and equipment had been cut twice — by Labour ( by 45 per cent ) between 1974 and 1979 and by the Tories between 1981 and 1985 , when Sir Keith ( now Lord ) Joseph was Education Secretary . |
| 3 | It was enabled to continue in office until May 1979 and in the recriminations of defeat the Conservative Party polarised into the Thatcher and Heath factions , the implications of which are still only partly worked out on the political scene . |
| 4 | ‘ In the reign of the Most Gracious Sovereign , George III and under the auspices of the Right Hon. William Fettes , Lord Provost of Edinburgh , the Harbour of Leith , though formed at a remote period and as commerce in the course of ages increased often repaired and extended , yet being still narrow and incommodious , Robert Dundas of Melville , Esq. , in absence of the Right Hon. Charles , Earl of Dalkeith , Grand Master of Scotland , laid the foundation stone of these docks in which the numerous vessels arriving from every quarter of the globe might receive ample and secure accommodation on the 14th day of May in the year of our Lord 1801 and of the Aera of Masonry 5801 , John Rennie being Engineer . |
| 5 | Orford Ness , where a staff of 2,000 once worked , has been involved in national defence research and development since the First World War when aircraft fitted with armaments were first tested.Research into bomb ballistics was carried out from 1929 and among the researchers was Barnes Wallis who became famous for inventing the bouncing bombs used against the Mohne and Eder dams during the Second World War . |
| 6 | Such a valuation is , in any event , required by the building society to ensure compliance with the criteria of prudent management set out in section 45 and by the directors of the building society to ensure compliance by them of the duties imposed by section 13 . |
| 7 | Our quotations from the 1790s and from the Times in 1880 ( see chapter 3 ) indicate that the feeling is at least two hundred years old . |
| 8 | He also referred to provisions in the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 relating to administrative receivers , and to many other provisions in the Insolvency Act 1986 and in the Companies Act 1985 which might conceivably have some bearing on this question . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , reflecting upon the record of the Labour government of 1945–51 and on the policies which its successor should pursue , he argued for a coherent socialist policy which would be freshly committed to ideals and be capable of realization . |
| 10 | Robert Moleyns , Lord Hungerford , captured at Castillon in 1453 , was valued for ransom at £6,000 , a sum inflated to almost £10,000 by the cost of his maintenance while a prisoner till his release in 1459 and by the charges of the merchants who negotiated the exchange of the money . |
| 11 | Few of its members , remembering the success of Lloyd George in 1981 , expected to win against the personal appeal of Winston Churchill , who was regarded almost universally as the principal saviour of the country , not only in the crisis of 1940 but in the years of partnership with foreign allies . |
| 12 | He assisted at the baptism of Henry 's daughter Eleanor in 1161 and at the translations of dukes Richard I and II at Fécamp in 1162 and of Edward the Confessor at Westminster in 1163 . |
| 13 | The data about the number of audit firm partners ( defined under the audit regulations as ‘ responsible individuals ' ) was obtained from the computerised public audit register as at November 1992 and from the institutes ' lists of members . |
| 14 | Records of the number of staff on duty collected at the same time as the observational data show that , on average , the staff/client ratio in hospital wards was 1:3.5 , in special units 1:1.6 and in the houses 1:0.9 . |
| 15 | Also , radiation doses are cumulative 5 and over the years the International Commission on Radiation Protection ( ICRP ) has steadily lowered its maximum permissible whole-body doses recommended for occupational exposure . |
| 16 | It found " substantial flaws " in Gorbachev 's decree of Jan. 29 and in the regulations to enforce it . |
| 17 | More details are given on pages 28 and 29 and in the documents being sent to shareholders with the annual report . |
| 18 | 1.2 agrees to pay for the Licensed Software in accordance with the Pricing Policy as defined in Schedule 3 and with the Terms of Payment as defined in Schedule 4 . |
| 19 | Bundle one er starts in er , in fact in nineteen eighty three , nineteen eighty four with documents which deal with the er first plaintiff previous employment and his general financial situation before then turning to nineteen eighty five and to the events that led up to his purchase of the business around which this litigation centres , in September of nineteen eighty five and the documents in that first one will go up to mid October in nineteen eighty five . |
| 20 | The old feudal tenancy , with its claim to perpetual rents , had disappeared in England in the 1660s and in the colonies Americans wanted to avoid being tenants of any sort . |
| 21 | I was at a conference in Berlin on Wednesday that was attended by ministers of the interior for the Twelve and for the countries of eastern Europe . |
| 22 | The new novel has married the pair and moved them on into the mid-Sixties and from the provinces to London , where Patrick works misgivingly in a fashionable publishing-house . |
| 23 | The trouble with when you see one and like the sizes there are suppose to get it , because they go so quickly . |
| 24 | Good examples exist at Pomposa Church 1063 and at the Cathedrals of Ivrea and Aosta . |
| 25 | This case was approved in Roome v Edwards [ 1981 ] STC 96 and in the cases of Eilbeck v Rawling and WT Ramsay Ltd v IRC [ 1981 ] STC 174 . |
| 26 | Leaving school in 1954 at the age of 15 and with no qualifications he became an apprentice engineer in the shipyards at Leith Docks . |
| 27 | Twenty years later still , under Louis IX and with the needs of the crusade in mind , a port was built at Aigues-Mortes on the Mediterranean , to be used for commercial and , even more so , for military purposes . |
| 28 | Sometimes it is through a mysterious inner constraint that he makes his presence felt , as when he guided Paul 's evangelistic direction away from the province of Asia in 16:6,7 and towards the hardships and opposition he realised he would have to face if he went up for that last journey to Jerusalem ( Acts 20:22,23 ) . |
| 29 | Monique filed for divorce in 1974 and at the proceedings in October 1976 , she told the court that Rachid ‘ was a man who did not seem to have any control of his emotions ’ ; that he believed ‘ women are not men 's equals and that women are servants to men ’ . |
| 30 | It could have been avoided by having the same verb in ss.18 and 20 or by the Lords in Wilson deciding that " cause " and " inflict " covered the same ground . |